"Whether amid the Gloom we stray, / And send our Intellectual Ray / Up to the pure, cærulean Plains on high, / There all the Glories of the Sky, / As round the liquid Space / They run their bright, ætherial Race."
— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House
Date
1730
Metaphor
"Whether amid the Gloom we stray, / And send our Intellectual Ray / Up to the pure, cærulean Plains on high, / There all the Glories of the Sky, / As round the liquid Space / They run their bright, ætherial Race."
Metaphor in Context
XI.
Whether amid the Gloom we stray,
And send our Intellectual Ray
Up to the pure, cærulean Plains on high,
There all the Glories of the Sky,
As round the liquid Space
They run their bright, ætherial Race,
Declare the God, who guides their Dance,
And makes 'em to the self-same Place,
Where they begun
Their Course to run,
At certain Periods advance.
Whether amid the Gloom we stray,
And send our Intellectual Ray
Up to the pure, cærulean Plains on high,
There all the Glories of the Sky,
As round the liquid Space
They run their bright, ætherial Race,
Declare the God, who guides their Dance,
And makes 'em to the self-same Place,
Where they begun
Their Course to run,
At certain Periods advance.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/25/2013
